allow Idaho to execute condemned inmates by firing squadis headed to the governor's desk after passing the Legislature on Monday with a veto-proof majority. Firing squads will be used only if the ...

A chair sits in the execution chamber at the Utah State Prison on June 18, 2010, after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Draper, Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool ...

ATLANTA — The Eleventh Circuit overturned the dismissal of a death-row inmate’s petition requesting to be executed by firing squad instead of a lethal injection, which he has plausibly shown may not ...

Missouri could carry out executions with firing squads under legislation proposed in the House. The state currently puts inmates to death with injections of lethal drugs, although existing law ...

Convicted for killing two prison guards in 2000 at age 19, he's the third person to die by lethal injection in Missouri this year. The killer's death marks Florida's third capital punishment this ...

SOUTH CAROLINA IS NOW PREPARED TO CARRY OUT EXECUTIONS BY LETHAL INJECTION. THAT MEANS ALL THREE METHODS OF EXECUTION OUTLINED IN STATE LAW ARE NOW AVAILABLE AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE. WE SPOKE ...

Capital punishment is legal in 27 US states. Three of those states have governor-imposed moratoriums. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 18 people were executed in the United ...

Kaylee Goncalves' family is mentally preparing for Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder trial. Bryan Kohberger is seen pushing back at a Washington State University police officer after an October ...